Premiums would rise if Trump ends Obamacare payments, CBO says

August 15, 2017August 15, 2017 News

The president has repeatedly threatened to end the payments, which are made to health insurers to help low-income people with out-of-pocket expenses

Public Health: Obamacare’s Bare County Problem Looks Mostly Solved, for Now

With an announcement in Nevada, a market that the president said was set to “implode” shows yet more signs of health.

End of U.S. payments to health insurers would cause premiums to rise: CBO

August 15, 2017 News, topNews

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health insurance premiums for many customers on the Obamacare individual insurance markets would be 20 percent higher in 2018 if U.S. President Donald Trump follows through on a threat to stop billions of dollars of payments to health insurers, a nonpartisan congressional office said on Tuesday.
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CBO: Ending Obamacare cost-sharing subsidies would raise premiums and the deficit

August 15, 2017August 15, 2017 News

The analysis was conducted at the request of congressional Democrats who have urged the Trump administration to continue the cost-sharing subsidies.

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Obamacare premiums to soar 20% if Trump ends key Obamacare subsidies, CBO says

August 15, 2017 News

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Texas governor signs controversial ‘rape insurance’ abortion coverage into law

August 15, 2017 health, health care, News, texas

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed a bill Tuesday afternoon, approved by the Senate over the weekend, that would prohibit all insurance companies from covering non-life threatening abortion care in standard health plans. Women, trans, and non-binary people will need to pay an additional insurance premium if they want their health plan to cover abortions performed outside medical emergencies; there will be no exceptions for instances of rape or incest. Opponents of the bill are calling it &#...

Trump’s plan to sabotage Obamacare costs $200 billion and doesn’t really even sabotage Obamacare

August 15, 2017 Congressional Budget Office, health care, News

For months, President Donald Trump has flirted with a tactic that could help make “Obamacare implode” — thus potentially forcing House and Senate Democrats to negotiate on a way to dismantle the law. On Tuesday, however, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report on what would actually happen if Trump implemented this tactic, and the results are less than spectacular.

For the most part, Obamacare would continue chugging along as usual. But the federal ...

Trump Threat to Obamacare Would Send Premiums and Deficits Higher

August 15, 2017August 16, 2017 Congressional Budget Office, Health Insurance and Managed Care, News, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010), Trump, Donald J, United States Politics and Government

If President Trump makes good on his promise to “let Obamacare implode,” premiums for the most popular plans would rise about 20 percent next year.

Alabamians love Trump, but they may hate the Senate more

August 15, 2017 News, politics, Senate

Despite unified Republican control of Washington, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has been having a bad year. The Senate primary in Alabama on Tuesday may make it even worse.

Alabama voters head to the polls Tuesday to select candidates who will compete in December for Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ vacated seat. Until recently, the Republican who has temporarily filled the seat since January and who has earned endorsements from both President Trump and Majority Leader McConnell ...

After Obamacare vote, John McCain is more popular with Democrats than Republicans, poll says

August 14, 2017 News

McCain's approval with Democrats is 20 points higher than the favorability rating he has with Republicans, where he has a 51% approval rating.

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